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The Holland Sentinel SUBURBAN DELIVERY EVENINGS Zeoland, Seugatuck. Douglas, West Olive, Hudsonville, Funnville, Hamilton, East Saugatuck, Montello Park, Central Park, Virginia Park, Jenkon Park, Macatawa Park, North Shore Drive and District Mo. 2. NO. 12 HOLLAND, Offshore North Vietnam Two Blasts Rock U.S.

Destroyer SAIGON (UPI)-Two unexplained underwater explosions rocked the destroyer USS Warrington Monday 'off North Vietnam, the U. S. command said today. Military sources said there was no Communist activity in the area when the blasts occurred. One crewman was slightly wounded, the command said.

He was given first aid and returned to duty. In South Vietnam, the government drive to recapture Quang Tri City entered its third week today with the North Vietnamese (still, in control of the city's walled Citadel, Saigon spokesmen said. The U. S. command reported two incidents in the Quang Tri-Hue area in which U.

S. aircraft fire accidentally wounded five South Vietnamese soldiers Monday. Near Quang' Tri City, two Air Force jet fighter-bombers erroneously fired on a government marine position, wounding four men. Near Hue, 35 miles south of Quang Tri, a Marine fighter-bomber in a similar error fired on a government marine battalion, injuring one soldier. The Warrington left the scene, about 20 miles offshore from the North Vietnamese panhandle, under its own power.

But after its engine room began to flood it was Threatens To Boycott Chess REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI)An adamant Bobby Fischer threatened another walkout today only minutes before the start of the world fourth game of tl $250,000 championship chess match but agreed to play if closed circuit television cameras were not used. Only 15 minutes before referee Lothar Schmid started the clock for today's game the firm which, bought film rights to the match tried to reinstall the cameras. "There will be no play if the cameras are brought in, that is one Fischer aide said. An urgent meeting of the orgonizers was held and the firm, Chester Fox, agreed not to use the cameras. Fischer then sat down in his special black leather and metal swivel chair and made his opening move his usual king pawn.

Fischer boycotted the second game against world champion Boris Spassky of Russia because of the cameras. Fischer said they made him nervous. Step-Mother Gets Speeding Ticket NEW BUFFALO, Mich. (UPI) --Mrs. Jane W.

Eagleton, the step-mother of Democratic nominee for Vice President, was ticketed for speeding over the weekend by the Michigan State Police. Mrs. Eagleton, 51, of St. Louis was cited for traveling 80 miles per hour in: a 70-mile-perhour zone, State Police at the New Buffalo Post said Monday. She was stopped by troopers! on I 94 near Bridgman 20 miles north of the Michigan Indiana border.

Mrs. Eagleton is the widow of the late Mark E. Eagleton, a prominent St. Louis attorney, and the step-mother of U.S. Sen.

Thomas Eagleton who was nominated for vice president by the National Convention of the Democratic party last week. House Passes 3-Year Aid to Elderly Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) -The House has approved 351 to 3 and sent to the Senate a $1.5 billion, -year program of aid for the elderly. Most of the money would go for grants to state and city agencies to operate aid programs for persons over 60. Sept. 15 Deadline For Facility Grants LANSING (UPI) -Communitics planning new sewage treatment.

projects should apply for state federal construction grants al the office of the Michigan Water Resources Commission by Sept. 15, it has been announced. Applications received or postmarked by that date will be considered for grants from state and federal funds as they become available for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973. CORRECTION Tickets for King and His Court vs. Holland All Stars available at Zecland Bakery, not Book Store.

Adv. TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1972 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS ON AND NEWS STANDS A Nixon Ends Work-Rest Vacation Returns to Washington To Confront Congress On Domestic Plans SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI)-President Nixon winds up an 18-day working vacation at the Western White House today and heads back to Washington to confront a Democratic Congress he claims is feeding inflation by wild spending. White House aides said the President is concerned about the fate of his pending domestic programs and will call i in Republican congressional leaders sometime this week to discuss them. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler left open the possibility Nixon might address the nation on the subject of congressional irresponsibility if the Congress continues to make a shambles of his budget.

Nixon's chief congressional liason, William Timmons, told newsmen last week that he would be keeping a close eye on Congress during the politically charged month-long session before the Republican convention. He said the President would veto measures that substantially exceed his budget, which the White House claims already has been put out of balance by more than $7 billion. Nixon has spent most of his time in California mapping the broad outlines of his re-election campaign with key aides resting up for the coming battle. Nixon met Monday with Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson and instructed him to try to reach agreement with the Soviet Union on a comprehensive new trade policy before the end of the Peterson departed immediately for two weeks of negotiations in Moscow, the first of a series of sessions aimed at broadening trade between the two superpowers.

Catholics Leaving Belfast Despite Pledge of Truce BELFAST (UPI) More Roman Catholic families left Belfast's Lenadoon housing development today despite a truce pledge from the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican The Provisionals agreed MonRepublican Army (IRA). "We live near the army post and WA heard shooting near here last one father of three who led his family from Lenadoon today. "We don't know where going but we are leaving." The Provisionals agrd Monday night to susond oprations day night to suspend operations in the area and William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, was to meet army commanders to discuss a withdrawal of British troops. Thousands of Roman Catholics left Lenadoon Sunday to protest the presence of British troops in the district. They said the soldiers' presence made the housing development a battleground.

Weather Mostly cloudy, warm and humid tonight and Wednesday with a chance of ers. Low tonight in the mid 60s. High Wednesday in the lower 80s. The sun sets tonight at 8:18 p.m. and rises tomorrow at 5:25 a.m.

The water temperature al Holland State Park is 72, air 69. At 11 a.m. today, the temperature was 68. Overnight rain, .63 inches. For the 24 hours ending at.

5 p.m. yesterday the instruments recorded the following: Local Report Maximum, 85. Minimum, 58, Precipitation, none. One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 77. Minimum, 46.

Precipitation, none. FRESH GLADIOLI Red Raspberries, Flat $5.77 Sweet. Cherries, Lug $6.49 Potter's Market 240 E. 8th Adv. URGENTLY NEEDED FOR Hope's Village Square Antiques, White Elephants, Etc.

Bring to Rush Bldg, 174 E. 8th 8-4 Sat. 8-11 Court Halts Detroit Fall Bus Plans Upholds Stay on Roth's Order to Buy 295 Buses For Cross-Districting DETROIT (UPI) Cross-district busing for the Detroit metropolitan area has been stopped for this fall by a U.S. Court of Appeals decision, an attorney for the State of Michigan said today. Eugene Krasicki, an assistant attorney general arguing the Detroit school integration case, said the U.S.

6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision Monday in Cincinnati makes' it difficult to start busing this September, A three-judge appellate panel continued a stay on an order by U.S. District Judge Stephen Roth to force the state to purchase 295 buses until Roth issues--or makes--his order final, appealable decision. Krasicki said he continued delay in the ordering of the buses "stopped cross district busing in the Detroit area for fall, 1972.33 "There's not enough time left to get the buses, and without buses there's no desegrgation," Krasicki said. While the appeals court action may stop an interim busing order for this fall, as Krasicki claims, it also is believed to be the spark needed to bring the case to a final determination. Roth today scheduled a hearing for Wednesday in U.S.

District Court in Flint to hear motions to make his interim orders, including the one to purchase buses, decisions that can be appealed. Guards Balk At Entering Prison BALTIMORE (UPI) About 130 prison guards, today briefly refused to Maryland Penitentiary, claiming they feared for their safety i in the -aftermath of two prison riots within 36 hours. The day-shift guards showed up for work, punched their time cards, but refused to enter the prison for about an hour. Maryland Secretary of Public Safetay Robert Lally said a committee of guards told him "the inmates run the institution" and the guards are "truly concerned about their 'safety." Officials said 60 Baltimore city police entered the prison to guard the 1,000 inmates but the regular guards agreed to go back after talking to prison officials for about one hour. Deliberate Blackout Ends In New York City Area and that their hands were tied.

I city of Birmingham, Ala. a McGOVERN RELAXES Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern appears casual and happy as he views the scenery from the front of the cabin he will be staying in for a two week vacation in the Black Hills near Custer, S.D. (UPI telephoto) KALAMAZOO (UPI) The decomposed bodies of two young Illinois women were found in the back seat of a car near Galesburg today. The sheriff called it homicide. The victims were identified as Lynda Clark, 19, Chicago, and Claudia Bigstrut, 19, Des Plaines.

The car, according to Kalamazoo County Sheriff Kirby Mason, was owned by the father of one of the girls. There were unconfirmed reports that ropes were found around the necks of the girls taken under tow, though the flooding was brought under control. The destroyer was en route today to Subic Bay in the Philippines for repairs. On June 4 the destroyer Joseph Strauss was damaged by two underwater by shellfire from shore. But naval spokesmen said there were no Communist gunboats nor any shore batteries firing when the Warrington was hit.

The Navy said an investigation of the blasts was under way. Spokesmen said the explosions were outside the Warrington's hull. This left open the possibilities that the destroyer had struck a mine -either North Vietnamese or American -or had been hit by the accidental firing of another warship in the task force. Board Meets For Site Proposals The Board of Education will meet Wednesday night at 7 in the Administration Building to discuss in detail the site acquis-. itions, possible options, financing and bonding and other related points for the new junior high schools.

The architectural firm of Kammeraad, Stroop and Van der Leek has submitted two possible sites of the Citizens Sites Committee and the committee will formerly recommend them to the board for their approval. Options have been taken on West 24th St. behind Christ Memorial Church and on East 24th St. near Apple Ave. The eWst 24th St.

parcel contains 32.72 acres for a total menia G. Dogger, .97 parcel contains 10 acres owned by Silver Creek Land and Investment Company, a four acre gift from the investment firm; 13.3 acres (plus Lot Doggers Subdivision), Hermenia G. Dogger, .97 acres, Edward E. and Frieda M. Kruid, 2.6, acres owned by Alvin W.

Elzabeth Vanderbush, 1.85 acres, Christ Memorial Church, $4,500. The East parcel containing 28.9 acres for $99,036 is owned by Alice Duer. Tentative plans call for identical schools each having an initial enrollment of 700 pupils. Suspect Homicide In Deaths of Pair UP TO $500 DISCOUNTS Roddy's Auto Exchange Open Evenings Till 9 P.M. Adv.I Egypt Ousts Its Russian Advisors SINATRA ENTERS Singer Frank arrives to testify before the House Committee today in Washington.

"I'm not a second class accused the committee of character assassination against Guard Uses New Concept In Training GRARLING Holland's National Guard unit and the Grand unit were engaged in training exercises in the field today in what was described as a new concept in training. First Sgt. Ray Naber of the Holland Guard said the Holland unit was the opposing force today while Grand Haven was in defense. and tomorrow the -rolls would be switched; Naber said the concept is in use by the regular army and the Guard was anxious to try the training method. The Holland guard is in its second week of the annual twoweek summer encampment.

The unit is to return to Holland Saturday, arriving at the Armory by about 9 a.m. A variety of training is scheduled Thursday while Friday begins preparations for leaving the training facility. Sgt. Naber said the Holland softball and volley ball teams lost in tournament action. In past years the Holland softball team has taken several trophies.

Wallace Sits in Office BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)Gov. George C. Wallace began a series of physical therapy sessions at the University of Alabama's Spain Rehabilitation Center Monday and set up a temporary state office on the third floor. singer lectured the committee for not promptly refuting the May 24 testimony of Joseph "The Baron" Barboza who sought to connect Sinatra with a New England syndicate headed by Raymont Patriarca.

(UPI telephoto) Sinatra Criticizes Committee Raps Neglect To Limit Testimony WASHINGTON (UPI) -An-1 grily declaring "I'm not a second class citizen, let's get that straight," singer Frank Sinatra accused the House Select Committee on Crime today of permitting character assassination against him. Sinatra lectured the committee for not promptly refuting the May 24 testimony of Joseph "the Baron" Barboza, who sought to connect Sinatra with a New England crime syndicate headed by Raymont "This bum went running off at the mouth," Sinatra snapped. "I resent it. I'm not a second class citizen, let's get that straight." Spectators packed into the ornate Senate Caucus Room "oohed" at Sinatra's sharp remarks. "How do you repair the damage done in the newspapers?" he asked.

Then he held up a newspaper clipping and read its headline: (Witness Links Sinatra To Reputed Mafia Figure." "That's charming," Sinatra sarcastically, "And that's all hearsay testimony isn't it?" "Yes it is." responded Committee Counsel Joseph Phillips. Teamsters Break for GOP McGovern Begins Campaign at Cabin By United Press International While Sen. George S. McGovern started his pre-campaign vacation in a three-room cabin in South Dakota, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley came out for him and the Teamsters Union broke precedent to endorse President Nixon.

McGovern flew to his home state Monday to spend two weeks resting from the 16- month campaign that brought him the Democratic presidential nomination. He settled in at a cabin on Sylvan Lake near Custer, carefully guarded by a platoon of Secret Service agent and slate police. An aide described McGovern as "bone-tired" and said he would remain in virtual seclusion for a time, but McGovern took time out to call Daley and thank him for Daley's promise to back the Democratic ticket this year. Daley made the announcement in Chicago, declaring that "I am a Democrat" and that he would support, all Democrats this year. There had been speculation he would not back McGovern after Daley's Chicago delegation was unseated at the McGovern Democratic National Convention.

But there was some bad news for McGovern and his running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, from the labor front. Frank F. Fitzsimmons, president. of the 2.

million-memberl (Agreement Dates Back To Nasser Decision Comes After Egyptian Premier Cuts Visit to Moscow Short Sinatra Crime Declaring Sinatra permitting him. The Teamster Union, announced in California Monday that his union was endorsing Nixon. cannot and will not endorse the Democratic ticket," Fitzsimmons said. "George McGovern has not earned the support of labor." Fitzsimmons and other sters officials emphasized their action by calling on Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente. Nixon extended his personal thanks.

The Teamsters described their endorsement as "unprecedented." They supported flubert II. lumphrey against Nixon in 1968, four years carlier endorsed Lyndon B. Johnson. The Teamsters no longer are allied with the CIO, which has called its executive board into session Wednesday to decide what position it will take on the campaign. AFL-CIO President George Meany battled unsuccessfully to block McGovern's nomination at Miami Beach.

McGovern spoke at an airport rally at Rapid City, S.D., before he journeyed to his cabin. He said the money spent for running the Vietnam war for six hours would rebuild everything damaged by the recent flood in the Rapid City arca SWEET CHERRIES, $5.95 LUG Minit -Washington Square Adv. Phillips and Rep. Claude Pepper, the committee chairman, acknowledged that Sinatra had never held an interest in the Fontainebleu Hotel in Miami Beach. Barboza had testified that Patriarca had told him that Sinatra held an interest in the hotel as a front for Patriarca.

Pepper and Phillips conceded that Sinatra had every right to complain about Barboza's testimony. But they said the statement from Barboza was not expected and at the time they had no idea whether it was true or not. GM Wins Award For Auto Safety SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)Edward N. Cole, president of General Motors, accepted a national safety award Monday and said critics of Detroit "might take a different attitude" if they could see the inside of the complex automo-70 bile business. Outside the hotel where Cole accepted the award, the critics picketed.

Protest signs carried by about 50 members of consumers groups read: "Put GM's safety award in ITT's paper shredder," and "Enjoy your Vega-between recalls." In Washington, D.C., Ralph Nader called the first annual safety award by the National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council and a "mockery Javits Wants To Dump Agnew WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R-N. today to start a "Dump-Agnew" movement. A1 a news conference.

Javits urged President Nixon either to find another running mate to replace Vice President Spiro T. Agnew or to throw open to the Republican convention the choice of the vice-presidential candidate. Javits said he did not want to mention candidates he preferred, but he said New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller or Sen.

Edward W. Brooke of Massaciusetts, the only black in the Senate. would add strength to Nixon's re-election campaign. Kalamazoo Adds Tax On Departing Air Passengers KALAMAZOO (UPI) The Kalamazoo City Commission Monday night approved a $1 head tax on departing passengers at the Kalamazoo Airport. Servicemen are cxempt from the levy which will go into effect in August.

If is expected to raise about $10,000 on the basis of current traffic statistics lat the airport. CAIRO (UPI) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat today ordered home an estimated 20,000 Russian advisers, apparently breaking ties with the Soviet Union that stretched back to 1956. The reason for Sadat's action was not completely clear but an official announcement was expected later. The decision came only three days after Premier Aziz Sidky spent only one day of a scheduled three-day visit to Moscow. Sadat asked Russia to bring its men home following a two the central committee the and one-half hour meeting, with Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party.

Sources said the advisers. which included an estimated 200 pilots and an unknown number of missile and air defense experts, have already started leaving. (London reports quoted a British newspaper today as saying Sidky asked for more offensive weapons from the Soviets and was rebuffed. The expulsion of the advisers was the Egyptian reply, it said.) Al Ahram newspaper said two days ago that Sidky spent eight straight hours with Kremlin leaders discussing topics relating to Egypt. (Political sources in Beirut said it was an open secret the Soviet presence was becoming an increasing internal irritant in Egypt and they noted that at recent ASU meeting as many as 90 per cent of the questions related to the Soviet advisers.

(The sources said it was likely Sadat would state that since the major Soviet task of installing SA2 surface-to-air missiles was completed, their presence was no longer required). The Beirut An Nahar newspaper said recently Egypt was spending an average $5 million a day on defense and now owed the Soviet Union a total $7 billion, This sum, it said, was to the value of all of Egypt's agricultural land. According to the Institute of Strategic Studies in London. the Soviet advisers operated Egypt's air defense system consisting of anti-aircraft guns, sites with six launchers each of SA2 surface to air missiles, a radar network and six squadrons of MIG21 interceptors. Coordinated with this defense are up to 150 MIG21 and possibly MIG23 aircraft.

NEW YORK (UPI) The Consolidated Edison Co. restored power today to up to 300,000 residents of Brooklyn it deliberately had blacked out for more than 13 hours to prevent an even more massive power failure. The utility reported service was restored at 11:04 a.m. EDT to Bay Ridge and adjacent sections of Brooklyn with almost as many residents as the entire THE BIG BERRY Blueberries Opens July 20 See Classified Ad Council Meets Wednesday Night City Council will hold its regular meeting Wednesday night at 7:30 in Council chambers on the second floor of City Hall. Items on the agenda include a hearing on the C-4 Zoning Ordinance Amendment for temporary use by a banking institution and 3 hearing on special assesment roll for paving Third St.

between Central and River Aves. Other items include reports from the City Manager on the paving program, a recommendation to adopt a resolution on County park property and a recommendation from City Clerk to accept bids on surplus equipment. Last Of Defendants In Labor Death Are Indicted WASHINGTON, Pa. (UPI)Two United Mine Workers (UMW) officials, the last of seven defendants to be arrested in the Yablonski slayings, have heen indicted on three counts of murder cach by a Washington County grand jury. The jury returned the indictments Monday against Albert Pass, 58, a member of the UMW Executive Board, and William Jack Prater, 33, A union field representative.

They are charged in the Dec. 31. 1969 deaths of union insurgent. Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski.

his wife and daughter, at their Clarksville, Pa, homo. Adv. 7. -w seral 0566.

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